Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Labov

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.

Chet Faker

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

Evangeline Lilly

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

Geoff Garin

The polls are pretty clear that voters want limits on the government's power.

Glynn Birch

The poll clearly shows this is a major concern, especially during the holidays because of increased drinking and increased driving.

E. B. White

The police said the woman had been talking to my daughter, but she never actually met up with her. They have cleared this woman of everything.

Katsuya Okada

The overall situation has now become clear ... the DPJ has suffered a great setback.

Kathleen Blanco

The path that I've outlined - moving our people from shelters or the homes of in-laws or friends and into hotels and transitional trailer communities here in Louisiana - gives our people hope, ... It gives them a clear path that they can see, a path that will help them get their lives together and get them home to Louisiana.

Madeline Albright

The path out of the wilderness is uphill, but it is clearly marked. It is time to move up that road.

Sundar Pichai

For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible.

Brad D. Smith

Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.

Brian Dexheimer

The rapid spread of digital content in our personal and work lives continues to drive strong demand for consumer electronics devices and computing systems with higher storage capacity, performance, security and new capabilities that make storage easier and more cost-effective to deploy and use. Seagate continues to invest in technologies that give customers more freedom to move, manage and protect information used in computing and consumer electronics applications.

David Wong

With today's computing needs, there is generally a greater need to be able to handle a large number of tasks simultaneously, as opposed to single, difficult tasks.

Steve Smith

When we go from single core to dual core, and dual to quad core, we get huge performance increases. When you look at the power efficiency and the response of the computing workload, you get the benefit.

Michael Loria

A growing number of organizations are interested in moving away from closed, proprietary technology platforms in favor of an open computing model. As one of the fastest growing operating systems in the world, Linux is emerging as a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows as an email and collaboration platform.

David Daoud

The market continues a fundamental shift toward mobile computing that is contributing significantly to top-line growth.

David Jackson

Moab Utility/Hosting Suite provides organizations with security, usability and a dynamic utility computing environment. This software will open the door to utility computing for any HPC organization that wants to share resources efficiently.

Kevin Lynch

Creative Cloud is Adobe re-imagining itself amid a world of these three transformations - cloud, multiscreen and social computing - which are all happening at the same time.

Rebecca West

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Edward Fitzgerald

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see

Dominic Moore

We opened the door for them, but it was a good sign that we kept the hinges on with good penalty-killing. Of course, Henrik is as good a penalty-killer as anyone.

Clinton Solomon

When I go see him, I talk to him through a glass window, and it's hard to talk to somebody like that. It's like I have so much to say, but I can't because I'm upset. And then I can't be upset at him because the thing he was doing to get locked up, he was doing to support me and my mom. Me and my sisters, we get mad about it. But we still love him, and when he gets out, I'm willing to open my doors and help him out and help him find a better place.

George Bernard Shaw

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner.

Alyce Wiedner

We had a path between her front door and my back door.

Henry B. Eyring

Our education must never stop. If it ends at the door of the classroom on graduation day, we will fail. And we will need the help of heaven to know which of the myriad things we could study we would most wisely learn. We cannot waste time entertaining ourselves when we have the chance to read or to listen to whatever will help us learn what is true and useful. Insatiable curiosity will be our hallmark.

Lynn Coady

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

Robin S. Sharma

Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.

Lee Sullivan

The police begged him to come out of the yard and I heard them telling him to 'drop it,' ... They were pleading with him for maybe 10 minutes. They told him, 'We don't wanna hurt you,' and then I heard one shot.

Seinabo Sey

I got introduced to Maps by my label, and I liked his sound. I had been living with the original version of 'Younger' for quite a long time when I heard the result of his remix, and I loved it. It actually made me find a new love for the track.

Taylor Mali

The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher-God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher-God complex.

Bob Newhart

The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.

Lilly Singh

Everyone's voice should be heard when it comes to racial barriers.

Charlize Theron

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

Frankie Valli

The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my teens. I did my first record, which was an old standard called 'My Mother's Eyes.' It was the old Georgie Jessel theme. I heard it on local radio out of Newark. And it was very exciting!

Larry Hagman

I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.

George Scalise

The outlook for the semiconductor industry remains robust.

Nina Garcia

I love 'Project Runway' because I can really be of help to an industry and I can be supportive to designers.

Tony Juniper

We are going to war with the nuclear industry -- but with a positive not a negative campaign.

will.i.am

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.

will.i.am

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Michael Walden

We have all the ingredients for a strong biotech industry here with the agriculture, pharmaceuticals and educational base.

Leah Rush

Time is money, and you can tell how much an industry is interested in getting their legislation through by how much they pay.

Molly O'Donnell

We are on track to support a worldwide launch for the first time in industry history.

Le Corbusier

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

Alan Cohen

Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You're never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You'll rise above every circumstance because you're greater than any circumstance.

Alan Cohen

A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.

Alan Cohen

Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

Alan Cohen

We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or a little fishbowl keeps goldfish tiny, we have adapted, adjusted, and accommodated to a Lilliputian life. But place the same tree in an open field or the fish in a lake, and they will grow to hundreds of times their size. Unlike the tree or goldfish, you are not dependent on someone else to move you. You have the power to move yourself. You can step into a broader domain and grow to your full potential.

Walter Benjamin

I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

Walter Benjamin

I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.

English Proverbs

It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

Mike Black

We're kind of moving at a snail's pace.

Aja Naomi King

Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.

Tom Knight

There is little news to perk up the market.

Venus Williams

You know the reason I don't watch the news is because I don't like violence,

Tom Daschle

We are dismayed and we are angered at the news of WorldCom today,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

David Talbot

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Edward Lear

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

Arthur Christiansen

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

Arianna Huffington

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Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Eric Fellner

You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

Paul Weller

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

Suranand Vejjajiva

We probably have to take it into consideration for our next step.

Chris Houston

We practically have a whole new team, so this is a rebuilding year. We plan to have some success here next year and the year after that, definitely.

Bob Newhart

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

Jim Christian

We had an unbelievable run in 2002, and that team will always be special in Kent State history. But this team will be in the very next paragraph.

L.A. Reid

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

Pokey Chatman

Usually when I give my opening statement, I can find something that's wrong. But, there wasn't a whole lot tonight.

Bill Richardson

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Ed Helms

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

Alan Horowitz

We're going to party opening night. And we want everyone to come out and party with us.

Robert Niro

(United) 93,' if it was not opening the festival, it would seem strange.

Dave Wannstedt

With us, everything is sort of new, from a personnel standpoint. Simonitis is really the only one that was in the lineup on Opening Day a year ago.

Nora Ephron

Another thing you end up doing when you get older, is you spend so much time sort of trying desperately to keep from just looking just a little older. You're just constantly putting stuff on your face and having things removed from yourself and opening up copies of "Vogue" so that you can find new ways to throw whatever money you've managed to save into the arms of some doctor who has just come up with a new way of lasering your face that feels like electroshock and all these things.

Nikola Tesla

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Rupam Das

Software is a type of seduction, it's addictive, it's better when it's free.

Ralph Johnson

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.

Fred Brooks

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Christopher Klaus

Anti-virus software does nothing to stop a worm,

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Richard Williams

These software stocks are all overvalued on the fundamentals that we see today.

Jeff Pulver

is the triggering of a transformation where telecom merges with software applications.